A Decade of Data Examined: Progress and Challenges in Electronic Public Health Reporting

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted deficiencies in the U.S. public health infrastructure, leaving health care providers and public health authorities (PHAs) ill-equipped to collect and exchange timely and accurate information needed to inform rapid response during the public health emergency. The fourth post in our “A Decade of Data Examined” blog series highlights early efforts to incentivize electronic public health reporting by health care providers to support PHAs’ public health surveillance and ability to respond to current and future public health threats. We also highlight persistent interoperability challenges and how new and ongoing efforts aim to achieve a future state of seamless and interoperable public health data sharing.